Just a little idea I’ve been kicking around involving lurkers and vents. A super niche ability that’s basically almost there entirely for flavour and soul.
Basically. If a marine is standing near a vent, and a lurker, or runner, tries to pounce them from said vent. It triggers a charge up time of a few seconds, and makes a vent noise.
If the marine doesn’t move, they get dragged into the vent. Which functions like the ASRS kill with fracs, a *scream, a *roar/*hiss and a big red text that says.
Private First Class Kannon Fodher is violently pulled into the vent!
Then it spits them back out.
Not all that important to the gameplay loop, but allows the xenos to surprise you, and keep marines terrified.
I for one would love to get vent killed as marine.
Thoughts?
Edit: Goes without saying but it should have some special jumpscare SFX for the afflicted marine.
honestly I would love this, let them pounce a target on an adjacient tile to deal an appreciable amount of damage, or a ton if on the same tile, with the cool custom kill animation if it crits or kills them?
